National Human Rights Commission of Korea Annual Report 2021 closed environment, the law provides that the Commission has the authority to make on-site investigations (Article 50-4), incidents of deaths of service personnel while on duty should be immediately notified to the Commission and the latter may demand to attend on-going investigations (Article 50-6); it also provides for exceptions to dismissal of petitions (Article 50-7), exceptions to investigation methods (Article 50-8), and protection of victims (Article 50-9). Moving forward, the Commission is enabled to take a more systematic approach to safeguarding and promoting the human rights of military personnel by leveraging its 20 years of experience and expertise in policy recommendation, investigation and relief on military human rights issues. Based on regular on-site inspections, the Commission recommended that the Ministry of National Defense improve the human rights conditions in military detention facilities. Surveys of boot camps showed that the excessive COVID-19 quarantine measures in place could constitute infringement of basic human rights. The findings were used to make institutional improvement suggestions. It also made ex officio investigations into incidents of sexual violence that resulted in infringement of the right to life. 6) Establishing a system for diagnosis and assessment on human rights Developing recommendations to operationalize the Fourth National Action Plan for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights Together with human rights groups, civil society groups, and external experts, the Commission set out to develop recommendations to operationalize the Fourth National Action Plan for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (NAP) from 2023. For the planning and execution of the 4th NAP, the Commission established a task force comprising ten human rights experts and activists, commissioners, and the Secretary-General. The task force held meetings on three separate occasions. The Commission also consulted with experts in 20 areas (right to liberty and correction, information rights, social security, older persons, right to adequate housing, right to work, climate crisis, gender violence, gender gap, family diversity, gender minorities, persons with disabilities, migrants, military, children and young people, disaster and infectious diseases, international human rights, education, business and human rights, and environmental rights) in writing to draw up a list of tasks, held meetings on ten areas (right to 28